7.5.1 How will crafting work?

Crafting will be a lot more involved, interactive, and exciting than traditional MMOG crafting systems. We feel strongly that crafting should be a lot more than click-click-click, or setting a harvesting device to extract materials while you go off to actually do something fun.

There are 2 so called "Spheres" in Vanguard. One being the Adventure sphere, which is independent of the Crafting Sphere. The Crafting Sphere being independent of the Adventuring Sphere, allows you as a player to broaden yourself in the game. The Crafting Sphere is somewhat different than the Adventuring Sphere, in that the Crafting Sphere has several parts.

In the Crafting Sphere you have both Harvesting Classes and Crafting Professions, both residing in the Crafting Sphere, but entirely independent of each other. The Harvesting Sphere will contain classes which you will select upon character creation.

The Harvester Classes currently planned (but not promised):

Foreman - focused on maintaining group stats and resource quality
Reaper - Focused on group buffs and resource quantity
Prospector - Focused on resource integrity and the predicting of detrimental obstacles
Gleaner- Focused on harvesting byproducts of resources

Notice that none of these are resource specific. That is because you can harvest any type of resources you wish, manipulating the resources into items falls under the Crafting Professions category.

The interesting logic behind these Harvesting Classes is that they compliment each other very well, which will encourage people to group while harvesting. Now why would you want to group to go harvest resources? Well the designers have thought long and hard about it and made it so that IF you are grouped with complimenting harvesting classes you will receive a bonus to your harvesting. This includes the possibility of increasing your chances to both harvest more efficiently as well as harvesting rarer resources.

Keep in mind that grouping is more than just getting a bonus to harvesting. Harvesting Classes have roles, just like Adventuring Classes. Some activities will require you to group up with other harvesting classes analogously just like certain monsters require more than one person to kill. More on this later.

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